I really want to work on these, guys!! Help me out here! What would you like next to your rank? I don't think we can give everyone their own unique thing, but we can sure try to get a majority thing in here.

Well, next month is July... Seeing as how it's a celebratory time in terms of independence, we could have pictures of our characters celebrating for their respective cultures? For those who may not have developed things like this, we could alternatively have the always fun beach party.

Well, spoiler alert, we already have a thing for America's Independence Day, but what other awesome holidays are in July? I like this idea! ^_^Sheeeeet, we can even make our own holidays for this kind of thing, since we have different characters from different planets, despite the species. It might be good for world building!

Like 'The New Person' could be a brand new eraser and as they rank up, the eraser gets smaller. Then when they reach a rank like 'Superposter', they lose the eraser completely and they get something along the lines of character favored weapons? (An Ice Sword, a Vine Whip, a Fire/lava ball etc.)

Yay! I'll have to remember what I put down for my Tropican months and their Earth equivalents are...

That could work, Luna. I don't want to really tier the level of awesomeness for each element though, but I do have an idea!

How about about we do a thing where you "unlock" each element in the form of that favorite weapon?Ice Sword for 'Superposter' sure, but then you just get more and more and more stuff along with your already acquired weapon/element! That way nobody fights and says "MERRR FIRE PWNS ALL AIR AND WIND SUCKZ LUL", even though I'm pretty sure most of us won't be that immature. XD;

Alright, so to list some choices, we can do an ice blade, a vine and floral whip, a burning arrow and bow, a lightning rod or staff... ummm... water and air I got nothin'. Genesis has a wind staff and Juliet has a water gem necklace thingy (which is why that's the new "online" tab in case you were all wondering)... And then there's darkness, metal, wood, stone, PLASMA for shets and giggles, anything could really go here.

Your new Rank Banners have been distributed! Tell me what you all think of this! I made all the sprites from scratch, and yes, there is some disproportion, but I this is all I can do for now with lack of Photoshop or anything similar. ^_^;;Chris Co. Inc. apparently owns an Eraser manufacturer... Add that to the list.

The unique 10 weapons (the last one is secret surprise!) all come from random elements:Ice Blade, Poison Vine Whip, Fire Bow and Arrows, Water Bracelet, Wind Staff (inspired by Genesis), Lightning Scythe, Stone Mallet, Light Tonfas (inspired by ShadowFantasy), and Darkness Double Axe. You can easily look ahead at what they all look like from other posters, but this gives me an idea for a later RP or story. ^_'

The rank banners are done. The eraser with the sprite weapons are the rank banners.

BUT if you guys don't like them I could totally change them to something of your liking! Luna and I kinda made the decision by ourselves. XD We should have consulted more of an audience, but due to the 4-5 man activity boost as of late, its kind of hard to get a general census of approval. ><

SO, what do you think we should do next for graphics? Want to work on the rank banners some more or I could even customize the contest earnings bar, the more menu buttons, more topic icons... what do you want to see? Or you could give me more big banner ideas - I could even play around with the background.

The only thing I want to do add more character to the site by either literally adding characters into the graphics or have it relate to our themes and stories. (i.e. "opened up a cyan portal" for the portal icon via Broken Gen - *shot for obscure reference only because I'm reading it*) But that's just my personal preference. It's not just my site, obviously, it's yours too. ^_^

Ooohhhhh! My bad! For some reason, that wasn't something I'd realized, haha! (Must remember to read things in detail next time -_-")

Seeing as the current banners were put into place only recently, I don't think we need to change it any time soon. As for graphics over all, I didn't know you could customize the contest bar, too! That'd be interesting! But maybe the main menu links at the top should come first? Making those all seem a bit more uniform (by all having icons) would look nice, I think! But there's no need to rush; there's a lot of other things we can change.

Should we make a list of things to prioritize? For both here and the Wiki?

I mean, most of this topic was about the banners. A little bit of reading before commenting would have helped me, I'm sure.

The only thing I can think of for a search icon is a magnifying glass, but maybe that's too overdone, seeing as how its the default? I'm not too sure-- that's a bit tough, haha!!

We could have a black silhouette of a basic person for one of the icons, I'm just not sure if Memberlist or Profile would fit that better? I'm leaning towards Profile, though. Maybe Usergroups could be hands shaking? Would that be possible to animate?

One google search on the word "search" brings up nothing but MAGNIFYING GLASSES... and then I saw a pair of binoculars. I think I want to try that.

I agree, the black silhouette is the best way to go about it because its universally known as a "self insert" symbol (usually accompanied with a white question mark over the face).Yes, it would, actually! 4 frames is all it takes! ^_^ I can get on that and finish the Search, Memberlist/Usergroups/Profile for today, but what else?

What do you guys think of having character heads for the Contest Earnings bar? If I can only do one head per chunk of earning, which character's head should it be?